From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Subject: Lnux 2.6.24-rc5
Date: Dec 11, 1:40 am 2007

It's been a week, and I promised to be a good boy and try to follow my

release rules, so here is the next -rc.
Things _have_ slowed down, although I'd obviously be lying if I said we've

got all the regressions handled and under control. They are being worked

on, and the list is shrinking, but at a guess, we're definitely not going

to have a final 2.6.24 out before xmas unless santa puts some more elves

to work on those regressions..
So any elves out there - please keep working.
I'm including the shortlog since it's small enough, and quite frankly,

gives about as readable explanation of the changes as can be imagined.

Nothing hugely exciting here.
I'd post the diffstat too, but it's not really all that interesting, and

it only highlights a textually big PA-RISC revert, and the powerpc

defconfig updates. And the Blackfin SPI driver. The rest is largely random

noise in various subsystems (drivers/net, xfs filesystem, and arch updates

are some of the areas that show more changes).
		Linus
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Adam Litke (1):

      hugetlb: handle write-protection faults in follow_hugetlb_page
Adrian Bunk (3):

      x86: revert CONFIG_X86_HT semantics change

      x86: free_cache_attributes() section fix

      MAINTAINERS: remove the MTRR entry
Al Viro (5):

      regression: cifs endianness bug

      no need to mess with KBUILD_CFLAGS on uml-i386 anymore

      fcrypt endianness misannotations

      regression: bfs endianness bug

      remove nonsense force-casts from ocfs2
Alexey Dobriyan (1):

      proc: fix proc_dir_entry refcounting
Andrew Gallatin (1):

      [LRO]: fix lro_gen_skb() alignment
Andrew Morton (7):

      x86: arch_register_cpu() section fix

      [BRIDGE]: Section fix.

      [IA64] increase .data.patch offset

      [IA64] don't assume that unwcheck.py is executable

      [IA64] export copy_page() to modules

      aoe: properly initialise the request_queue's backing_dev_info

      revert "dpt_i2o: convert to SCSI hotplug model"
Anton Vorontsov (1):

      PHY: Add the phy_device_release device method.
Atsushi Nemoto (1):

      qemu: do not enable IP7 blindly
Auke Kok (1):

      e100: cleanup unneeded math
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (1):

      pata_amd/pata_via: de-couple programming of PIO/MWDMA and UDMA timings
Ben Gardner (1):

      gpio_cs5535: disable AUX on output
Benjamin Herrenschmidt (6):

      ibm_newemac: Fix ZMII refcounting bug

      ibm_newemac: Workaround reset timeout when no link

      ibm_newemac: Cleanup/Fix RGMII MDIO support detection

      ibm_newemac: Cleanup/fix support for STACR register variants

      ibm_newemac: Update file headers copyright notices

      powerpc: Fix IDE legacy vs. native fixups
Bernhard Walle (1):

      [IA64] rename _bss to __bss_start
Bryan Wu (11):

      spi: initial BF54x SPI support

      spi: spi_bfin cleanups, error handling

      spi: spi_bfin handles spi_transfer.cs_change

      spi: spi_bfin uses platform device resources

      spi: spi_bfin: handle multiple spi_masters

      spi: spi_bfin: bugfix for 8..16 bit word sizes

      spi: spi_bfin: update handling of delay-after-deselect

      Blackfin SPI driver: use cpu_relax() to replace continue in while busywait

      Blackfin SPI driver: use void __iomem * for regs_base

      Blackfin SPI driver: move hard coded pin_req to board file

      Blackfin SPI driver: reconfigure speed_hz and bits_per_word in each spi transfer
Chris Dearman (1):

      [MIPS] Don't byteswap writes to display when running bigendian
Christian Borntraeger (2):

      [S390] dcssblk: prevent early access without own make_request function

      [S390] Fix compile error on 31bit without preemption
Christoph Hellwig (1):

      [XFS] revert to double-buffering readdir
Cornelia Huck (1):

      [S390] cio: Issue SenseID per path.
Cyrill Gorcunov (1):

      [SPARC64]: check for possible NULL pointer dereference
David Brownell (2):

      SPI: use mutex not semaphore

      spi: at25 driver is for EEPROM not FLASH
David Chinner (2):

      [XFS] Fix broken inode cluster setup.

      [XFS] Fix xfs_ichgtime()s broken usage of I_SYNC
David Howells (1):

      [AF_RXRPC]: Add a missing goto
David S. Miller (4):

      [SPARC64]: Missing mdesc_release() in ldc_init().

      [SYSCTL_CHECK]: Fix typo in KERN_SPARC_SCONS_PWROFF entry string.

      [SPARC64]: Update defconfig.

      [SPARC64]: Fix memory controller register access when non-SMP.
David Sterba (1):

      bonding: Fix time comparison
David Woodhouse (1):

      Don't claim to do IPv6 checksum offload
Denis Cheng (1):

      mm/backing-dev.c: fix percpu_counter_destroy call bug in bdi_init
Denis V. Lunev (1):

      [IPV4]: Remove prototype of ip_rt_advice
Divy Le Ray (2):

      cxgb - revert file mode changes.

      cxgb3 - T3C support update
Don Zickus (1):

      x86: add the word 'WARNING' in check_nmi_watchdog() output
Donald Douwsma (1):

      [XFS] Fix dbflush panic in xfs_qm_sync.
Eliezer Tamir (1):

      make bnx2x select ZLIB_INFLATE
Eric Paris (5):

      Security: allow capable check to permit mmap or low vm space

      security: protect from stack expantion into low vm addresses

      Security: round mmap hint address above mmap_min_addr

      VM/Security: add security hook to do_brk

      VM/Security: add security hook to do_brk
Eric W. Biederman (2):

      fix clone(CLONE_NEWPID)

      proc: remove/Fix proc generic d_revalidate
Evgeniy Dushistov (1):

      ufs: fix nexstep dir block size
Geoff Levand (1):

      [POWERPC] PS3: Update ps3_defconfig
Grant Likely (2):

      gianfar: fix compile warning

      [POWERPC] virtex bug fix: Use canonical value for AC97 interrupt xparams
Haavard Skinnemoen (9):

      [AVR32] Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK to the work masks

      [AVR32] Fix invalid status register bit definitions in asm/ptrace.h

      [AVR32] Kconfig: Use def_bool instead of bool + default

      [AVR32] Implement stacktrace support

      [AVR32] Implement irqflags trace and lockdep support

      [AVR32] Clean up OCD register usage

      [AVR32] Follow the rules when dealing with the OCD system

      [AVR32] Fix copy_to_user_page() breakage

      [AVR32] Fix wrong pt_regs in critical exception handler
Heiko Carstens (1):

      [S390] Make sure the restore psw masks are initialized.
Hugh Blemings (1):

      ibm_newemac: Skip EMACs that are marked unused by the firmware
Ilpo Järvinen (3):

      [TCP] FRTO: Use of existing funcs make code more obvious & robust

      [TCP]: Move prior_in_flight collect to more robust place

      [TCP]: NAGLE_PUSH seems to be a wrong way around
Ingo Molnar (7):

      sched: fix crash in sys_sched_rr_get_interval()

      sched: default to more agressive yield for SCHED_BATCH tasks

      drivers/s390/net/ctcmain.c: fix build bug

      sched: style cleanups

      lockdep: fix debug_show_all_locks()

      lockdep: make cli/sti annotation warnings clearer

      sched: enable early use of sched_clock()
Jan Kara (1):

      jbd: Fix assertion failure in fs/jbd/checkpoint.c
Jarod Wilson (1):

      firewire: OHCI 1.0 Isochronous Receive support
Jay Vosburgh (2):

      bonding: Add new layer2+3 hash for xor/802.3ad modes

      bonding: Fix race at module unload
Jeff Moyer (1):

      aio: only account I/O wait time in read_events if there are active requests
Jeremy Fitzhardinge (1):

      xen: relax signature check
Jiri Kosina (1):

      RTC: assure proper memory ordering with respect to RTC_DEV_BUSY flag
Joe Perches (4):

      [SPARC64]: Add missing "space"

      [SPARC]: Add missing "space"

      [IA64] Add missing "space" to concatenated strings

      MAINTAINERS: update stale entries
Jon Smirl (1):

      Fix memory corruption in fec_mpc52xx
Julia Lawall (3):

      [SPARC64]: Add missing pci_dev_put

      [SPARC]: Add missing of_node_put

      drivers/serial/uartlite.c: Add missing of_node_put
Kenji Kaneshige (1):

      [IA64] Fix iosapic interrupt delivery mode for CPE
Kumar Gala (1):

      [POWERPC] Fix swapper_pg_dir size when CONFIG_PTE_64BIT=y on FSL_BOOKE
Kyle McMartin (5):

      Revert "[PARISC] import necessary bits of libgcc.a"

      [PARISC] timer interrupt should not be IRQ_DISABLED

      [PARISC] Update parisc-linux MAINTAINERS entries

      [PARISC] print more than one character at a time for pdc console

      [PARISC] lba_pci: pci_claim_resources disabled expansion roms
Lachlan McIlroy (3):

      [XFS] 971064 Various fixups for xfs_bulkstat().

      [XFS] Fixed a few bugs in xfs_buf_associate_memory()

      [XFS] Clear XBF_READ_AHEAD flag on I/O completion.
Li Zefan (1):

      [IA64] make full use of macro efi_md_size
Linus Torvalds (4):

      Tiny clean-up of OPROFILE/KPROBES configuration

      Avoid double memclear() in SLOB/SLUB

      Revert "PCI: fix IDE legacy mode resources"

      Linux 2.6.24-rc5
Maciej W. Rozycki (1):

      esp_scsi: fix reset cleanup spinlock recursion
Manuel Lauss (1):

      [MIPS] Alchemy: Fix Au1x SD controller IRQ
Marc Pignat (2):

      spi: simplify spi_sync() calling convention

      spi: use simplified spi_sync() calling convention
Mark Lord (1):

      sata_mv:  Warn about HPT RocketRAID BIOS treatment of "Legacy" drives
Michael Hennerich (1):

      spi: bfin spi uses portmux calls
Mike Frysinger (1):

      spi: spi_bfin, don't bypass spi framework
Mike Habeck (1):

      [IA64] SGI Altix : fix bug in sn_io_late_init()
Mirko Lindner (1):

      [NIU]: Fix link LED handling.
Mitsuru Chinen (2):

      [IPv6] SNMP: Increment OutNoRoutes when connecting to unreachable network

      [IPv4]: Reply net unreachable ICMP message
Neil Brown (1):

      Fix NULL dereference in umem.c
Nick Piggin (1):

      mm: fix XIP file writes
Oleg Nesterov (1):

      lockdep: in_range() fix
Olof Johansson (1):

      pasemi_mac: Fix reuse of free'd skb
Paul Mackerras (1):

      [POWERPC] Update defconfigs
Pavel Emelyanov (6):

      [IPVS]: Don't leak sysctl tables if the scheduler registration fails.

      [IPVS]: Fix sched registration race when checking for name collision.

      [ROSE]: Trivial compilation CONFIG_INET=n case

      [IRDA]: Move ircomm_tty_line_info() under #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS

      Avoid potential NULL dereference in unregister_sysctl_table

      [VLAN]: Lost rtnl_unlock() in vlan_ioctl()
Pavel Machek (1):

      ACPI: suspend: old debugging hacks sneaked back
Peter Oberparleiter (1):

      [S390] cio: add missing reprobe loop end statement
Peter Schwenke (1):

      ata_piix: add Toshiba Tecra M4 to broken suspend list
Rafael J. Wysocki (5):

      Freezer: Fix s2disk resume from initrd

      Freezer: Fix APM emulation breakage

      HWMON: coretemp, suspend fix

      Freezer: Fix JFFS2 garbage collector freezing issue (rev. 2)

      [XFS] Make xfsbufd threads freezable
Ralf Baechle (5):

      [MIPS] BCM1480: Fix interrupt routing, take 2.

      [MIPS] Oprofile: Fix computation of number of counters.

      Fix oprofile configuration breakage

      [MIPS] Bigsur: Enable tickless and and highres timers.

      [MIPS] Malta: Enable tickless and highres timers.
Randy Dunlap (1):

      pcmcia: fix kernel-doc comments
Richard Purdie (1):

      leds: Fix led trigger locking bugs
Rini van Zetten (1):

      atmel_spi: reload RCR before TCR
Robert Hancock (1):

      sata_nv: don't use legacy DMA in ADMA mode (v3)
Roel Kluin (3):

      e1000: fix memcpy in e1000_get_strings

      [IA64] operator priority fix in acpi_map_lsapic()

      asm-h8300: parentheses around definition CLOCK_TICK_RATE
Sam Ravnborg (2):

      kbuild: fix building with redirected output.

      kbuild: fix building with O=.. options
Sergei Shtylyov (2):

      [MIPS] Alchemy: replace ffs() with __ffs()

      [MIPS] Alchemy: fix IRQ bases
Shaohua Li (1):

      [IA64] kprobe: make kreturn probe handler stack unwind correct
Shi Weihua (1):

      [IA64] signal : fix missing error checkings
Simon Horman (1):

      [IA64] iosapic cleanup
Sonic Zhang (5):

      spi: spi_bfin uses portmux for additional busses

      spi: spi_bfin, rearrange portmux calls

      spi: spi_bfin: change handling of communication parameters

      spi: spi_bfin: relocate spin/waits

      spi: spi_bfin: resequence DMA start/stop
Sreenivasa Honnur (1):

      S2io: Check for register initialization completion before accesing device registers
Stefan Roese (2):

      ibm_newemac: Add BCM5248 and Marvell 88E1111 PHY support

      ibm_newemac: Add ET1011c PHY support
Stephen Hemminger (1):

      sky2: recovery deadlock fix
Stephen Rothwell (1):

      [POWERPC] Update iseries_defconfig
Stephen Smalley (2):

      SELinux: do not clear f_op when removing entries

      SELinux: detect dead booleans
Steven Rostedt (1):

      futex: fix for futex_wait signal stack corruption
Tejun Heo (3):

      ahci: fix engine reset failed message

      ahci: don't attach if ICH6 is in combined mode

      libata: kill spurious NCQ completion detection
Tetsuo Handa (1):

      Add EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize);
Thomas Gleixner (4):

      futex: correctly return -EFAULT not -EINVAL

      hrtimers: avoid overflow for large relative timeouts

      clockevents: warn once when program_event() is called with negative expiry

      ACPI: move timer broadcast before busmaster disable
Tony Breeds (1):

      [POWERPC] Fix hardware IRQ time accounting problem.
Valentine Barshak (3):

      ibm_newemac: Correct opb_bus_freq value

      ibm_newemac: Fix typo reading TAH channel info

      ibm_newemac: Call dev_set_drvdata() before tah_reset()
Vegard Nossum (1):

      SLUB's ksize() fails for size > 2048
Vlad Yasevich (2):

      [SCTP]: Add bind hash locking to the migrate code

      [SCTP]: Fix the bind_addr info during migration.
Wagner Ferenc (5):

      bonding: Remove trailing NULs from sysfs interface.

      bonding: Return nothing for not applicable values

      bonding: Purely cosmetic: rename a local variable

      bonding: Coding style: break line after the if condition

      bonding: Allow setting and querying xmit policy regardless of mode
Wang Chen (1):

      SMC911X: Fix using of dereferenced skb after netif_rx
Will Newton (3):

      pxa2xx_spi: fix typo in description

      spi_bfin5xx: fix typo in description

      spi_imx: fix typo in description
peerchen (1):

      ahci: add the Device IDs of MCP79 AHCI controller to ahci.c
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